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Encounters with Chaucer
Our second year Middle English course had excluded anything by Chaucer, so it was no surprise to find that for those of us on scheme C, Chaucer was the entirety of our third year Middle English exposure. The main required text was the massive 1000+ page Robinson edition of the Complete Works, which was an…
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Starting the final lap
All of the material I have for my second year at Leeds has now been covered in previous posts. There was a course on the History of Criticism, about which I remember little, except that we complained because we couldn’t hear the lecturer – no microphones in those days. So we move on now to…
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Paradise Lost in Leeds
I am way behind on the account of life as an English undergraduate fifty years ago, so much so that it’s really fifty-two years ago now. Anyway, here’s the latest instalment. On Scheme C, we were obliged in our second year to take a course on Milton. The reading list was uncompromising. Here it is:…
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Middling English
The second year course for those of us on Scheme C was quite mainstream, but we still had to tackle the successor to Anglo-Saxon, which was a course in Middle English, excluding Chaucer. Our texts were Medieval English Lyrics by R.T. Davies, Piers Plowman, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight for poetry; Malory’s Morte d’Arthur…
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Touring through the eighteenth century
Back in the second year at Leeds, we had some choices about which courses we followed on our scheme. I’m not sure if Special Period was a compulsory or an elective, but it’s one I enjoyed immensely. The course was, I think, the only one we did that was defined not by genre or author…